"A writer's heart must beat. A reader's heart must hear it."

-- Patricia Lee Gauch

#Heart Quotes #Beats Quotes #Reader Quotes

“If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.”

Source : Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.138, PM Press
“The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.”
“Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out â€” that sort of thing.”
“The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.”
“You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can think of, obviously, is Lance Armstrong, who got it all wrong. Who wanted to apologize strategically, instead of abjectly. What got me interested was the repetitive nature of it. There's something so ritualized about it. Then the ritual needs to be reenacted very carefully and pretty frequently - Tiger Woods, and now Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong, and a little earlier Anthony Weiner or Eliot Spitzer.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“For me, music gives a voice to fashion.”
“You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then youâ€™re going to be happy, then yourâ€™re going to have a good attitude, then youâ€™re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, Heâ€™ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.”
“Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.”

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